health - "national hiv"

LILONGWE (Reuters) - Greater access to free medicine has helped slash AIDS-related deaths in Malawi by 75 percent in the last four years, a senior government official said on Monday.HIV/AIDS has been blamed for 59 percent of deaths among those aged between 15 to 59 years in the southern African country, which has a population of 13 million.But Malawi has made progress since 2004, when it started to offer free antiretroviral therapy -- drugs that help treat immunodeficiency virus -- to thousands of patients.

DENVER (Reuters) - Democrats opened their national convention on Monday and a rift involving Hillary Clinton's resentful supporters threatened to rain on presidential hopeful Barack Obama's nominating parade.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is blasting British multi-national drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for a recent series of direct-to-consumer print advertisements that, under the guise of patient education, capitalize on patients' fears of hiv treatment.

CDC officials on Thursday confirmed that the agency has stopped funding for Georgia to participate in a 'cutting-edge' surveillance program aimed at determining trends in HIV/AIDS nationwide, the Atlanta ...

Coronary artery disease is the most serious health threat in the U.S. and is projected to remain the number one cause of death for the next 50 years.

A program that will provide employees in Namibia who work at sea with information on HIV/AIDS and focus on antiretroviral treatment is in an advanced stage of development, the New Era/AllAfrica.com reports. According to the New Era/AllAfrica.com, the program is needed to address this group's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS because of a lack of information and to ensure that hiv-positive employees do not miss scheduled doses of antiretrovirals.read more

In early August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released revised figures on the number of new U.S. hiv infections each year.

Some health workers and advocates in Kenya's North Eastern Province recently said that HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns face difficulties in the region because of its remote location and culture, IRIN/PlusNews reports. Ijara, a district in Kenya's North Eastern Province, has recorded the lowest number of people living with hiv in the province at 130.read more

The Wall Street Journal on Monday examined a new trend for drugmakers marketing HIV/AIDS treatments to release ads that 'tak[e] aim at rival hiv drugs, hinting at side effects and other drawbacks.' Drug companies have 'traditionally sold' antiretrovirals 'with images of hope and by explaining the benefits of their treatments' and the 'tough new tack has some patient groups unsettled, saying it could scare off patients,' according to the Journal.read more

About 12,000 of the 50,000 hiv-positive children in Uganda who are in need of antiretroviral therapy are receiving the treatment, delegates said on Wednesday during the second annual national pediatric HIV/AIDS conference in Kampala, Uganda, the Monitor reports.